Mission Critical's columnists provide expert commentary from a variety of industry professionals in all sectors, including data centers, health care, Industry 4.0, utilities, government, education, and more.
Amy Al-Katib, editor-in-chief of Mission Critical magazine, shares her thoughts on a wide range of topics that affect the industry worldwide, including cybersecurity, data center training and education, site selection, and diversity, to name a few.
Get “Data Centered” with Melissa Reali-Elliott as she explores challenges that affect all aspects of the data center industry and shares insights on the solutions and opportunities available.
Chris Crosby is the CEO and founder of Compass Datacenters. Before that, he was senior vice president of corporate development for Digital Realty Trust. He uses this column as a means to share his unconventional wisdom with the rest of the industry so the global growth can continue.
Mission Critical's columnists provide expert commentary from a variety of industry professionals in all sectors, including data centers, health care, Industry 4.0, utilities, government, education, and more.
Manufacturing companies continuously seek improvements that will streamline operations, remove inefficiencies, protect operations and deliveries, and surpass user expectations. More often than not, improvements are driven by the adoption and support of technology.
Whether it’s an elementary, middle, or high school that you are seeking partnership with, there are a myriad of resources available on the IDCD website to help get students interested and involved in the industry.
After a four-or five-year hiatus, I returned to the AHR Expo—the HVACR industry’s most popular event. Per usual, the aisles of the show floor were filled with buzzwords, and among those that topped the list was “uptime.”
It shouldn’t be a case of considering only air or only liquid cooling. Instead, the key is to understand the tradeoffs of each cooling technology and what makes the most sense for each individual business case.
This past year we have seen countless examples of competitors becoming collaborators,locked in a dance of “co-opetition,” finding themselves both competing and cooperatingsimultaneously in a way that transcends the traditional boundaries of rivalry.
As ransomware attacks increase and evolve, company backups will continue to come under threat. To effectively combat this threat, it’s important that organizations have proper security measures in place and invest in protection that cannot be erased, modified, or deleted by anyone for a set time period.
As the built environment continues to change, two building types have remained in high demand: data centers and warehouses. But, further innovation in these building types is lagging.